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(Amendment  No.  4  to 
B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  144.) 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU    OF    ANIMAL    INDUSTRY. 


AMENDMENT  NO.  4  TO  RULE  1,  REVISION  2.-T0  PREVENT  THE  SPREAD 
OF  SPLENETIC  FEVER  IN  CATTLE. 

■Effective  on  and  after  November  1,  1907. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 

The  provisions  of  Rule  1,  Revision  2,  to  prevent  the  spread  of  splenetic 
fever  in  cattle,  effective  on  and  after  April  15,  1907,  are  hereby  amended 
by  the  addition  of  the  following  exception,  which  shall  become  and  be 
effective  on  and  after  November  1,  1907: 

Exception  12.— Louisiana.  No  cattle  shall  be  moved  or  allowed 
to  move  from  the  modified  quarantined  area  of  any  State  or  Territory, 
other  than  Louisiana,  into  the  parishes  of  Lincoln  and  Claiborne  in  the 
State  of  Louisiana  unless  and  until  such  cattle  have  been  dipped  or 
sprayed  in  Beaumont  crude  petroleum  or  an  emulsion  thereof,  or  other- 
wise satisfactorily  treated,  under  the  supervision  of  an  inspector  of  the 
Bureau  of  Animal  Industry. 

Done  at  Washington  this  tenth  day  of  October, 
1907. 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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